My girlfriend was in Paris recently so here's a foto.
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Don't you think it's time there's more investment in researching new materials that can enable humanity to build things like the space elevator? I don't think of it as a hype thing (I'm even a bit frightened, what would happen if one of those things fell, prospects like those in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy are not that bright...) but imagine things that could be build with this kind of stuff... Like those trains appended on a single "rope" above Manhattan, or even objects that were never imagined before. Things that will improve traveling, lifestyle, bring better energy efficiency etc. Perhaps it's something worth investigating.
Even though writing itself is a catharsis process, if it wasn't for YOU and your visits who knows if I'd still be writing this blog. Every now and then I look at my stats and wonder, are you just a statistical noise, a search spider or a real breathing omnivore. Anyways here are the stats for this blog that I've gathered with time.
I've found this ajax tag library framework. It's very simple in philosophy. You select a zone on your jsp, you send a get or post using the ajax javascript, it goes to the server passing through a filter, your servlets recreate the page, the filter filters returning only the zones that were invalidated. It's very easy and I recommend it even though it's visible there are some quirks to be resolved. It doesn't try to introduce new tags like ajaxtags but that I think is it's simplicity and flexibility. Another prominent library is the DWR but I found it a bit more intrusive although I haven't tried it yet.